Parking Stickers For Wilson Given To Residents Near Easton Hospital

The stickers attached to the rear-view mirrors of their cars will permit the residents to occupy parking spaces for unlimited periods of time near their homes.

Parking for others will be restricted to two hours Mondays through Fridays, Police Chief Richard Nace said yesterday.

Nace said police will issue stickers at Wilson police headquarters, 21st and Butler streets, between 6 and 8 o'clock tonight to residents of the 2000 block of Hay Terrace and the 1900 and 2000 blocks of Washington Boulevard.

Residents of the 1900 block of Lehigh Street and the 1900 and 2200 blocks of Fairview Avenue may pick up stickers between 6 and 8 p.m. tomorrow. Those living in the 1900, 2000 and 2100 blocks of Ferry Street may pick them up between 6 and 8 p.m. Friday, Nace said.

Nace said applicants must show their auto registration cards to be eligible for stickers. Two stickers and one visitor pass will go to each family "whether they have two cars or 102 cars," the chief said.

Each sticker and visitor pass will be registered at police headquarters by number and name, Nace said.

Borough authorities came up with the plan for parking stickers after receiving complaints from residents that visitors and employees of the hospital took up all the parking room in their neighborhoods.

Borough employees have installed six green and white signs in each block where the new rules will go into effect on Monday. The signs are "very visible" and advise motorists that cars not equipped with stickers may park for only two hours on weekdays, Nace said.